Smoot's Ear
The Measure of Humanity
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Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesmootsearmeasure0000tave
- ISBN-100300124929
- ISBN-139780300124927
- LibraryThing4060371
- Library of Congress Control Number2007010417
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number80331815
- Better World Books9780300124927
- Open LibraryOL10319532M
Classifications
- LCCQA465 .T38 2007
- LCCQC39
- DDC530.809
Description
Measures are the subject of this unusual book, in which Robert Tavernor offers a fascinating account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised over two millennia. He discusses measures in our own time - when space travel presents to humankind a direct encounter with the unfathomable measure of the universe.
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